According to new reports, however, Trump was unsure if he had made the right decision; even contacting senior advisers within the campaign to see if he could cancel the announcement.

“Around midnight last night, so this morning, Donald Trump was on the phone with senior advisers trying to see if he could get out of this, if it’s possible to not actually pick Mike Pence,” said CNN senior correspondent Dana Bash.

Pence had not only accepted Trump’s proposal to run as his vice president, but had cancelled plans to seek gubernatorial re-election in Indiana, flew to New York, and was waiting in a hotel while Trump was considering a switch.

“So what this tells us is that this was so out of Donald Trump’s comfort zone, he doesn’t operate like this, he operates with his gut, and by all accounts — if he were following his gut — he would have gone with Chris Christie,” speculated Bash.

“But everybody around him in the campaign apparatus had been making these moves to make it so Mike Pence would be his running mate. Flying him to New York, leaking it, basically, to the press that he was going to make the call,” she added.

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Similar reports were issued by NBC correspondent Kelly O’Donnell as well, who claimed sources within the Trump campaign confirmed the rumors.

Sources tell me @realDonaldTrump was on phone till midnight making calls, asking if he could change course on VP pick